📰 weekly reporter 12.28-01.03

[zoomieyo]

📰 weekly reporter

vol. 2 no. 1 week of 12/28/25-01/03/26

r.e.p.o.r.t.e.r — media recap — editors recap—

— reflecting

happy new year!!!!! while my first ever!!!! weekly report was written in march of 2024, i think it's a little more fitting to renumber everything with the new year. so welcome to the (proper) volume 2 of weekly reporter! yay! i did a little bit of research when this idea of renumbering reporter popped into my head so. anyway...
in the new year spirit... i Want to do reflection posts, I Want to talk about goals and stuff but well. it also makes me crazy and paralyzes me so. IDK how to resolve that yet. I've been really struggling to write in general, so recapping the year and setting new goals seems daunting. I have a bingo card made... sigh. I'd like to resolve this problem this week.

— enjoying

while I'm bemoaning recapping and setting my own goals, this is what I really enjoy!!! I love seeing everyones new journal ecosystems (which also baffles me, truthfully...), setting new goals, ins and outs, the bingo or punch cards... I love this!!!!
these last two weeks, I've also really been loving matching sweatpants and pullover outfits. it got cold here (after it having been like 60 degrees and comfortable for weeks) so I've been needing more layers.

— playing

LADS 2nd anniversary you tricky trickey game.... lads added the sims. THE SIMS!!!!! they gave you a house to decorate and wow. im obsessed!!!!!! I also love the concept for the current banner au- its basically space opera? there is, of course, discourse around caleb (whats new) because they finally dropped a "brother by blood" in the card instead of the "childhood friend but raised together" they've been doing since release. then theres the usual complaints of infold being money hungry (again, whats new. plus its a gacha lbr). so i'm back to ignoring the social media except for the fanartists and the house designers now. tbh my interest in lads was wanning for a while but i think the break was needed because now im fully obsessed again. my favorite part of lads in cooing over the boys in photobooth or on the home screen, and now in the house. BAHAHA. I leveled up xaviers affinity to 100 finally so I did a wedding photoshoot in the house. it was so fun!!!! i can't wait to unlock room 4 which is a gym room, and I'm hoping that when they add room 5 its a kitchen. id loveee to see some more interactions or maybe even mini games.... but the mini games is a long shot.. what i really hope for is adding the crane game plushies as decor items and maybe even the meow badges. it would be cool to see the With Him decor as furniture too.
I also picked up the bass again!! i was pleasantly surprised by how much came back after 2(?) years of not practicing. I'm working on R U Mine? by arctic monkeys because it has a kick ass bass line, and I have the sheet music for it BAHAH. it was also one of the pieces we were working on before I stopped doing lessons.

— obsessing

more ruminating obsessing these last few weeks.

— recommending

I asked for a fancy hairdryer for christmas and it changed my life. I've been using a cheap conair for years now, so I got upgraded to the shark pro flex. its seriously awesome. I love it. i have thick hair, and it used to take forever to dry and now its so much faster. I need to learn how to actually use the attachments now that i have a hairdryer that can use them.

— treating

mom and dad having been buying asiago bagels for breakfast sandwiches! these are my favorite kind of bagel so breakfast has been even more enjoyable. I've also eaten a lot of pears lately!!! I really like a slightly softer pear than my mom.. but gyah... I really like pears.

— encountering

I am so glad that everyone is getting into the gym for new years but please come at a different timeeeeeee... sigh. january is hard for gym rats like me because of the influx of new people... but everyone has to start somewhere... so I'm glad you're here... but don't be stupid..... and be courteous and kind to others in the gym...... pleaseeeeee........

— restoring

been sitting around playing lads sims house designer since the update came out on 12/31 and wooowwww.... i didn't really realize how much rest i needed..

spring semester starts soon... note to self: add word count somewhere; expand stats report with words/pages written? hobby tracking..? update this section with a fun "ticker" element????

media recap

📚 reading: mostly enjoying the current banner event in lads... i'm particularly fond of rafayels rn
📺 watching: mom has been rewatching the witcher
🎵 listening: new playlist: I'm into everything you have going on which is a manifestation playlist for the next boyfriend. if he isn't into me like this then what is the point. also did some obsessive relistens to both entertainment and double dare by waterparks to 1) get over a crush and 2) consider writing album reviews on my record club (shoutout lettie!!!)
🎮 playing: LADS. looking forward to arknights: endfield, definitely putting pokemon legends za on the to play list...

📥 editors recap

hoooo weeeeee... happy holidays. happy new year, hello 2026!! long time no journaling!!! I've been frustrated and anxious and I can't quite find my voice but it is the new year and we must be brave. we must make art!! I've been collecting reminders for 2026 in the way of goals and progress and purpose etc etc... it feels a little daunting to write reporter tonight. I journaled before this, and it felt like pulling teeth. I'm glad I pushed through, because I found that at about 400 words in, my worried melted away and I still had 600 words to write about all the beautiful things. I don't want to be scared or anxious to write in 2026. I want to set fun and challenging goals, I'd like to do lot of neat things, I want to meet people, and go on adventures and generally, have a lot of fun.
thank you for being here. I'd like to see you again this new year as well.

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on writing — current musings — dating and modeling — stats report — cultivation, curation, creation —

🖉 on writing

writing goals I'd like to achieve:

• redevelop daily writing habit: 3 handwritten pages OR 1000 typed words
• get into writing fanfic
• achieve those old progress log writing goals
• write up chara bios for ocs
• write ups for oc universes
• IDEAL: write 52 weekly reporters; write more reporters than last year (21)
• get reporter written and posted before bedtime (aka stop staying up late to do reporter)
• write up old essay ideas (5-6 old drafts)
• post on dreamwidth more....? monthly report (template sketched.. need to code) ? rando fun stuff....?

sigh..... ambitious as always. better get to writing.

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💭 current musings: magic

been getting a lot of tarot readings on my instagram feed which makes me want to pull some cards here soon. I don't think I've pulled cards since 2024 truthfully. I stopped pulling cards because they kept telling me I needed to do the work. I'm not sure that I 'm done enough work yet, which is why I'm hesitant to pull cards.
looking at all the new year predictions- japanese lucky chart, chinese zodiacs, astrology, so on and so forth... it should be a good 2026...

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👛 dating and modeling

in my last update I said: "I've decided dating is not a priority to me, but I'm open to it for the right person..." and then some random cute guy followed me out of the blue on instagram.. we had a lot of mutual interests and things kinda clicked so I got a little excited. we "broke up" due to distance but maaaannn... it was a lesson. (its always a lesson) that it has to be a hell yes or its a hell no. it still kinda stings because i was honestly excited about what Could Happen. but yeah. I'm sticking to it for real!!! dating is not a priority, but for the right person, I'm open to it. If I'm excited and we click, then hell yeah- let's figure it out and make it work. so I had to get over rejection and listened to waterparks and then decided I wanted to manifest positive stuff instead so I put together that playlist I linked LOL.
no fashion updates... I've lived in sweatpants and comfy clothes during the holidays (as one should.)

📊 stats report

— last weeks goals
☑ finals!
▭ register for spring ▣ law school app
☇ creatine & bcaa protocol
bonus! mini blogmas ☒

passed my finals with an A and a B!! I registered for spring, but I haven't turned in my law school app bc I'm nervous about it. I need to write two essays for it. I started taking creatine and bcaa's in my workout water bottle... I really wanna get the ryse fruit punch bcaas again. I felt the best when I was taking that stack during my workout followed by breakfast, protein shake + collagen on my way into work... sigh....

— 3 goals for the upcoming week
☐ new years posting
☐ law school application
☐ write workout split
bonus! restart the artists way

I will beat back the anxiety in all this writing and report back victorious next week. :salute emoji: I have a couple of workout splits I wanna modify, and then I also need to write up a warm up mobility routine, a cool down stretching routine, and probably add an ab circuit too.

curation
I need to figure out a good way to track things. I should probably just use apps/sites for this but I'll probably make an obisidan template or I should really just track in my hobonichis.....

creation
really wanna more analog hobbies this year... I bought a film camera and some film so I need to play around with it and then of course I see this film scanner just went on sale so. it feels very universe message-y to me. i really want a cute hard case for this camera so I can put stickers on it. I also saw this post about paper punches and I love the embossing stamp one. this would be soooo good for journaling. which is another thing i want to do more in the new year is art journaling!!!!!

cultivation
I really want to be better about cultivating friendships and connections... if you ever want to meet, or do penpals or anything...!!!!! please let me know!!! I am going to do better in responding to comments in a timely manner!!!! I want to connect and meet people!! give me a reason to travel!! I'm already planning some fun new adventures for this year... maybe we could do one together WAAHHHH

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